With the stark injustices women and girls continue to face in the country, Afghanistan's "Sesame Street" has unveiled a new boy muppet whose mission it is to promote gender equality. Last month, Sesam...

This story is part of a series on ocean plastics. Imagine unwrapping a frosty popsicle on a hot, sticky day and finding a brick of polluted ice, complete with bits of frozen trash stinking of sewage....

This story is part of a series on ocean plastics. After decades of plastic pollution, overfishing and other man-made crises, our oceans are in serious trouble. But a new film produced by famed directo...

This story is part of a series on ocean plastics. Margaret Atwood, the author behind hit Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale," is well versed in the types of hot-button issues that polarize societies. In...

After a recent controversial Pepsi ad incited outrage on the Internet, an advocacy group is calling on soda drinkers to express the same level of concern over the questionable environmental practices...